Kim Kardashian Still Uses a Blackberry

Last night, Silicon Valley and Calabasas converged, as Kim Kardashian attended the Code/Mobile conference, hosted by Re/code. Kim sat down with Re/code co-founder Kara Swisher for a conversation about the best selfie angles, what really went down between Khloe and Lamar, and which producers are working with North on her forthcoming debut single. Just kidding: they talked about tech stuff!

Swisher—per a live blog posted on the Verge—began with a series of questions about Kardashian’s reality show (Kardashian says she “works really hard,” and “likes to prove people wrong”). Kardashian said she typically begins filming the show at six A.M. and doesn’t finish until nine P.M. for half the year, explaining she doesn’t think “reality TV gets the respect it deserves.”

Other takeaways:

— Kardashian says she does all of her tweeting herself, and doesn’t employ any kind of social-media squad.

— Instagram, unsurprisingly, is her favorite social network, because it has “a little bit more texture than words.” Also, in a rule that would be good for us all to keep in mind, she said she never posts more than three pictures of herself in a row, so as to not clog anyone’s feed.

— She still uses a Blackberry, though she does own an iPhone (her rationale seems to be that she finds it easier to type out e-mails on a Blackberry). She is so addicted to the device that she actually buys new versions of the Blackberry Bold—which is no longer being manufactured—on eBay. (C’mon, Blackberry, how have you not lined up Kim for an endorsement deal?! At the very least, we’re sure you could negotiate a storyline where Scott loses Kim’s Blackberry and she and Jonathan Cheban have to drive around West Hollywood looking for it in disguises, or such.)

— Kim acknowledged she has made a whole lot of money from her iPhone game (“it did very well for me”), but she did not give a specific number. “I wasn’t trying to make anything else but an entertaining game,” she said.

— Google Glass are “not for her.”

— Kim is basically a start-up in and of herself. She says she is working on other games and she sees herself working in the mobile space for a long time. She cites the openness of the Kardashians as integral to her success. “You can just feel it, we're so open and each and every one of us is that way . . . I can't answer why me, and not someone else.”